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W. WILKINSON. COMBINED BOTTLE AND DRINKING GLASS HOLDER.

No. 451,097. Patented Apr. 28, 1891.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER VILKINSON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE GORHAMMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED BOTTLE AND DRINKING-GLASS HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,097, dated April28, 1891.

Application filed December 23, 1889. Serial No. 334,744. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WVALTER WILKINSON, .of, the city and county ofProvidence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and usefulCombined Bottle and Drinking-Glass Holder; and I do hereby declare thefollowing specification,taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of the same, to be a description thereof.

This invention has for its object the holding of a bottle of wine orother beverage and one or more drinkingglasses, and the device isparticularly adapted for use on shipboard, where the rolling of asteamer, yacht, or other vessel often renders it very difficult toretain bottles and glasses on the table.

The invention consists in a holder having a main clasp forholdingabottle, one or more supplemental clasps for holding a glass orglasses, and a clamp or clamping-jaw constructed to embrace and grip arack-bar or like support for securing the holder stationary on suchsupport or fixture, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents the device in perspective. Fig. 2shows the same attached to a support with a bottle and portions of twoglasses represented by dotted lines therein. Fig. 3 shows in perspectivea modified form of clamp for securing the device to a support.

A is the clasp for holding the bottle, which clasp is preferably made ofmetal having a spring function, so that it will tightly grasp a To theclasp A one or more supplemental clasps B are attached by rivets orotherwise, to hold a drinking glass or glasses. Preferably each clasp Bis com posed of a comparatively rigid arm 1), secured to the clasp A,and a spring finger or arml), secured to the arm I), so as to grasp thestem of a glass placed To the clasp A is attached a clamp therein.

or clamping-jaw O for attaching the holder to a support or fixturesuch,for instance as the rack used aboard ship in heavy Weather to retain theplates in place on the table.

.D, Fig. 2, represents a portion of such a rack. The clamp C ispreferably made of spring metal of the proper stiffness, and shaped soas firmly to clamp or secure the device or holder to its support. Theclamp may, however, be rigid and be provided with a clamp-screw c, Fig.3, to fasten the device in place; and, if desired, the screw 0 may beused even when the clamp Ois made of spring metal.

By the use of the device or holder bottles and glasses may be held onthe table of a vessel even in the roughest weather.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a bottle and drinking-glassholder consisting of a main clasp A, adapted to encircle and grip abottle, and provided at its rear portion with an attached clamping-jawO, constructed to embrace a rack-bar or similar support to secure theclasp in a stationary position there upon, and one or morelaterally-projecting drinking-glasses, and clasp B, mounted on the mainclasp and constructed to encircle and grip the drinking glass or glassesto sustain the same beside the suspended bottle, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination of the clasp A, one or more arms 19, secured theretoand having a spring-finger b, and a clamp or fastening device C forsecurely attaching the article to a support or fixture, substantially asset forth.

WALTER WILKINSON.

Witnesses:

EDsoN SALISBURY J ONES, GEORGE M. OADY.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 451,097, granted April28, 1891, upon the application of Walter Wilkinson, of Providence, RhodeIsland, for an improvement in A Combined Bottle and Drinking'GlassHolder, an error appears in the printed specification requiring thefollowing correction, viz.: Inline 7 0, the clause drinkingglasses andclasp B, should read drinlcing-glass ciasps B and that the LettersPatent should be read With this correction therein that the same mayconform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 12th day of May, A. D. 1891.

[sEAL] GYRUS BUSSEY,

' Assistant Secretary of the Interim- Oountersigned C. E. MITCHELL,

Commissioner of Patents.

